(Literally, since I do have to type to pull up my computer files.) Nineteen years of them! If for some reason I ever need to know who played the viola in 1815, I've got the info at my fingertips. To do this I had to recreate nineteen years of Smythe-Smith quartets.
Because the Smythe-Smiths are such a large family, I had to come up with eight separate nuclear families. This meant I had to figure out how many brothers and sisters each character had and where they were in the birth order.
Families and family relationships are very important in my writing, so when I develop characters for a book I have to understand their family structure. I settled on the girls from 1824/1825, in part because I wanted to be able to spread the quartet of books over two seasons. I discovered that I had written about musicales taking place in 1816, 1819, 1824, and 1825. 
Once I did that, I had to decide which set of Smythe-Smith cousins I was going to write about. I had included Smythe-Smith characters in so many books that I had to take several days just to compile all of my previous mentions. Not of history or of music, but rather of my own novels.
Writing Just Like Heaven took a lot of research. In this case, a beautiful violinist in the pitiful group who has her sights set on marrying the last unwed Bridgerton…unless her handsome, lovestruck guardian has anything to say about it. B) still miffed at being nicknamed “Bug” as a childĬ) NOT in love with her older brother’s best friendĬ) NOT in love with his best friend’s younger sisterī) survive a deadly fever AND world’s worst musical performanceĪnd it’s JQ at her best, so you KNOW the answer is…ĭ) all of the above From #1 New York Times bestselling author, and creator of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn presents the first, dazzling installment in the Bridgerton adjacent Regency era–set world featuring the romantic exploits of the well-meaning but less-than-accomplished Smythe-Smith musicians.
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